Next GM Watch

[hakeemfaan]

Of course the new GM will decide a new coach, when the time comes. But he won't be tasked with "bringing a coach" with him anytime soon. No one thinks it's on the Mavs' plate right now to change coaches. 

The task at hand for the new GM is to figure out how to fix the roster, and to be able to negotiate trades and other moves expertly (rather than screw it all up further, like Nico). That's plenty.  

I would suggest that even if he didn't have a new contract, Kidd would probably be their preference anyhow to be the coach. For now, the players will be suffering through the misery of a lot of losing this season as the Mavs chase a good draft pick, and Kidd is the very sort of coach you want in that sort of situation -- he's deft at making a tank look like trying, he gets players to play hard, he's a very good developer of players (to make the most of a bad year), and he has superior buy-in from the players he coaches (which will help them ride out the awful year with less damage). And once the roster gets fixed from the ruin Nico brought to it, they will want a coach who can navigate a team to success in the playoffs, and Kidd has shown a superior ability in that area as well.

 

Kidd is a little snake. He is also angling for the GM position by all accounts.  If rumors are to be believed, he also turned in the screws on Nico, once he realized Nico was on thin ice.   He specifically put Coop at the point because he was not happy with the DLo acquisition. What other things will he do if he's not happy with some of the moves of the new GM?  If I'm a GM, I'm extremely wary of working with him.  Sure the GM can cut him loose at that point, but it's so much energy and time wasted. 

Roster building and the GM having his own person can go hand in hand.